Indian spiritual guru urges UAE to take leadership role in region to save soil

Indian spiritual guru urges UAE to take leadership role in region to save soil

Sadhguru on a visit to the emirate as part of his solo motorcycle trip

Published: Wed 18 May 2022, 9:42 PM Last updated: Wed 18 May 2022, 9:57 PM

Indian global visionary leader, Sadhguru Jagadish Vaudev, who is on a 100-day ‘Journey to Save Soil’, is impressed by the UAE’s efforts in nature-based climate change solutions.

The Indian yogic is on a visit to the UAE as part of his solo motorcycle trip, which kicked off from London in March and will end at the southern tip of India, with an aim to spread awareness on the soil crisis and urging world leaders to act accordingly.

On Wednesday, the UAE’s Ministry of Climate Change and Environment hosted the spiritual leader at Jubail Island’s mangrove park in Abu Dhabi. The UAE has a target to plant 100 million mangroves by 2030, which will bring up the mangroves forest area to 483sqkm and boost the carbon sequestration rate to 115,000 tonnes per year.

During the event, Dubai-based International Center for Biosaline Agriculture (ICBA) inked a memorandum of understanding with Sadhguru’s Conscious Planet Movement to Save Soil to protect food-producing agricultural soil in the UAE from degradation. The signing ceremony was held in the presence of Mariam bint